moving the overton window

moving the overton window

1920 - white women allowed to vote
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1963 - gideon v wainwright - right to an attorney
1967 - Loving v. Virginia - interracial marriage is legal everywhere
1970 - first gay pride parade - marking the anniversary of the stonewall riots
1973 - Roe v. Wade - abortion made legal
1974 - Equal Credit Opportunity Act - women can get a credit card
1975 - Taylor v. Louisiana - women could serve on a jury everywhere
1986 - Vasquez v. Hillery - minorities can serve on juries (petit and grand)
1993 - spousal rape is a crime in all 50 states
2003 - Lawrence v. Texas - gay sex legalized
2009 - President Obama sworn in - first non-white male president
2015 - Obergefell v. Hodges - same sex marriage is legal

tv shows - again

LOLOLOL
LIKE so many other shows that get canceled ... NO ONE TELLS YOU ABOUT IT until it was too late

Dead Like Me - one of the all time greats
The Sarah Connor Chronicles - 100% chance of wanting to kill everyone for letting it get canceled. Also, KNOWING that they were being canceled, the clifthanger? !!!
Dollhouse - very slow to get going, but the end of season one?!!! Season two got better. and then fox pulled yet another firefly!!

HAVE YOU SEEN, the good place?
Give it two episodes, and DO NOT READ ANYTHING ABOUT IT .... spoilers!!!!

Change

This is why there is no more blackberry phones. 

This is why apple BULLDOZERED all of the Newtons. 

This is why EVERYONE uses windows and office. (Deleted your moronic religious rant. You clearly didn’t read, nor comprehend the article. Welcome to timeout )

This is why your next phone will be the same ecosystem as your current. 

This is why some things take forever to change. 

This is why “paradigm shift” came into vogue, and why we should shoot marketers who overused it. 

This is why the us will never switch to metric. 

This is why the brits will always drive on the wrong side. 

This is why war is paradigm shift. 

This is why your minions got so upset when u bulldozed everything in SimCity. 

This is why India and China are poised to spring past the US. And the us wont see it coming. 

This is why half of us want this changes that seem to take forever.

This is why Future Shock breaks everything. 

ptsd is real

While reading The Unspeakable Mind, I find myself thinking about THIS.
Esp in the shithole of america. You get assaulted when you are 4, block it out, have a normal life, and BOOM, one day you get trigger, and the world, literally ENDS. Her descriptions of anecdotal patient, first visit and the second visit a week later, sigh, my bartender asked me if I was OK????

So you go to get help, fall apart, lose your job and family when you need them the most, lose your insurance, can't get help anymore, end up an addict living on the street.

And HALF of our population says "they should just get a job".

THAT anyone still doubts the existence of PTSD????

I am adam lanzas mother - its your child you raise it

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/24/475461959/how-talking-openly-against-stigma-helped-a-mother-and-son-cope-with-bipolar-diso

interventions

Interventions

I have been spending a HUGE amount of brain cells on THIS ISSUE. It is about changing beliefs, ideologies, breaking ingrained habits.

The BEST metaphor that I have reached is: Intervention.

Facts and Logic do not work.

Every single addict KNOWS that what they are doing is "bad".

And until they hit ROCK BOTTOM, nothing changes. Ever!

Without an intervention, or their hitting rock bottom, nothing will change.

I think that we need to start SPEAKING about interventions.

And getting out the new/young/missing voters.